Prosecutor to Review Patient Deaths After Katrina

NEW ORLEANS — The Orleans Parish district attorney said Friday that he was conducting an “evaluation” of the events surrounding patient deaths at Memorial Medical Center here in the days after Hurricane Katrina, though he said he had not formally reopened an investigation.

The evaluation was prompted by an Aug. 30 article in The New York Times Magazine, in a collaboration with ProPublica, an independent nonprofit investigative organization. The article raised questions about the deaths of at least 17 patients, who appeared to have been injected with
high doses of sedatives after a long-delayed rescue effort was under way...

... Nina Killeen, a spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office, said the evaluation had so far consisted of an interview with the Orleans Parish coroner, Frank Minyard, who testified in the 2007
grand jury investigation and was quoted in the article as saying that he considered four of the patient deaths to be homicides.

More Comments:

Stephen Kislock -
9/13/2009

If any prosecution(s) come out the Katrina disaster/debacle investigation number 1. G.W. Bush, 2. The Army Corps of Engineers, 3. local government officials, who Sealed Exits and Bridges out of New Orleans!